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back beyond theetruscar. kings who been bestowed upon an article, the tions in the value of this article preceded the consuls; ; we must go right of possession of that article kept occurring from various causes. • -«I went • ’ beyond ’ the mere i actual fact Different nations adopted different 1 back beyond the time when the sight of the ete-nal city wae in the of having possession and the articles to pass for their money, idst of vast solitudes, before the present use of it, the idea of « proper-' and either allow their people to ' JYllva ov w w v«»wv _ _ ______ r __ - ___ f______ —___________ ____ -» __ she-wolf heard the cry of its infantjty came into existence, and the | agree upon the values of their dif- founder I from the shores of Tibur. rules governing the possession and | ferent moneys, that is, what the • 1 right • *- of ' possession ------ • n to We will find etrusian coins used ’ in to an an i article, I same should bear to various arti the cities of Ascanius and Lavinia ' as property, grew up among men; cles of production and of use among in the midsts of the dawn of; and most complicated did they them, or adopted by usage, the val European history and the cartloads j become,until a Liebig reduced them ues which foreign merchants would ¡of iron the Spartans used for mon to a svstem, and a Chitty digested place upon them, who traded with them, or established such values ey, by the advice of Lycurgus, to them into law During the Just so with money. The ear- by arbitrary laws. escape by means of making it as early feudal ages money came to ' inconvenient and useless as possi- liest form of trade was the simple yet declared against, and which our Ladies and Gentleman and Fel- ble for the purpose of trade, the very exchange of possession of different have very little value at all, even fathers failed to provide against foj j evil we. ourselves, in these days of articles There could be no other, as a medium of exchange, because lowCiiixens: One of the most in- the republic in its growth through1^ jn which (he gun of science before the existence of property; the money adopted by one country teresting. if not one of the most in the centuries. The uncrowned | Coasts to dispel the darkness of the but with property came values, . would not pass current in another, structive studies of man’s pursuit, king, to which this slavery is due, jgnorance of the ancients—have | and money was invented for con- In the second place the peasant inbiltory. In nearly every depart is the money power. fallen into and are now bewailing. yenience, as the medium of ex- paid in kind and services, and the ment of investigation a knowledge lord lived off what he had inherited We must go back before the time change. There is not, nor there ever has It is probable that the Phoenici- ' in the armor his father left him, in of history is useful and important. been on thi3 earth ari institution of Lvcurgus, to see Sidonean coin They were the clothes his serfs spun for him, In law, the history of an enactment more worthy of investigation than age in the Grecian camp bef ire the ant invented money. io necessary to an accurate under the institution of ■»oney. No other beleagured walls of troy Phrygian, the firRt merchants of the world’s in the food with which they sup standing of its application. In institution exists, or ever existed, j monev in old Priann’s realm, and history. They were people of great plied his table by their labor and medicine, the history of a disease so fir reaching in its effects, so among the kings that went before antiquity. Thev were the carriers production in the field, in the who brought to Shafre, of Egypt’s horses and livestock they raised on is a factor in determining its na widely known and so familiar in ' i him. fourth dynasty of kings, the As his domain, in the lands, castle, There was money in the ships tureand proper mode of treatment. all the walks of life, and yet po lit-, Syrian alabasta, with which he furniture and serfs of his ancestral In politics, a knowledge of hist< ry th- under,-tood, No oth»r contri-1 from Tyre, which brought to Solo adorned his palaces and temples; estates and in the spoils and prizes would be a safeguard against th. vanee of man plavB such an im mon the present of the Phoenician king, and centuries before Solomon and during the thirteenth dynasty the rewards and plunder of the modern tendency to cP liver tip portant part, or ex- rts such a con when his great nation was but a at Thebes they were found in the wars and forays of that' dreadful to the w ip of party die trolling influence over the destinies handful of Egyptian slaves, of Queen Hatasu and period. They generally took what we are service tation, independence of opinion; of nations and of individuals. brought to the great concourse of brought from the island of Brittn, they wanted without money and and in religion the light of historv In its inception, the mere me Pelusiam, gathered to welcome then unknown to any but them without price. They despised trade is invaluable in revealing to the diuru of exchange, it has become home Rameses, the greatest of all selves, the tin, discovered on the 1 as base and unwoithy of their order searcher alter truth the thin and the subject matter of science. The the Pharoahs, from Kadesh, and Nile, in the temples of Amon and | and very little money was needed unsubstantial fabric of the errors | and very little was in use. creature of man’s invention, the the conquest of the Keta, where he Hathor. of superstition. The questions These Phoenicians were at the paid off the temple serfs he had But the Crusades by bringing the j slave of his will, it is also the mas pressed into his armies for Asiatic first Sidoneans; they were the ear pending before us today, the solution nations together introduced manv I ter ef his passions and the idol ot conquest, against the will of the liest shipbuilders, and probably radical changes; kings gathered ar- of which is puzzling the whole his worship Before its graven world, questions which are fraught images in silver and gold, he bows priests, in Egyptian money—rings the discoverers of the science of’ uiaments for long _ expeditions to of gold. I navigation, and the first among the Holy land, lords left their dis with so much importance that the with his face to the dust in sincerer But Rameses the Great was the, nations, so far as we have any tant homes for glory to be won present distress and future welfare adoration than in the presence of third pharoah of the nineteenth , authentic record, to coin money. against the infidel, palmers began of mankind seems to be involved in his maker He serves at its shrines dynasty—if we go back to the A colony of Sidonians founded traveling over the road, back and them, will be more clearly under- ,with more than with eastern devo thirteenth pharoah of the Eleventh ! Tyre about 1500 vears B. C., and forth, to visit the shrinks of the id, more intelligently discussed, tion, and he brings to iis alters of dynasty, Ahment-mhe, ruling at • the Tyreans soon became the car saints and*places rendered sacred fur being viewed in the light of the I sacrifice his life, his health, his hon- Thebes, we shall see the silver riers and merchants of the world’s to them bv the traditions of their P*8t. These questions, as they are or« his affections, his patriotism and monev current with the merchant, traffic, and in their turn they found religion. For ail these purposes ofinurestto the most careless be-1 his religious faith. He allows it to which Abraham, the Chaldee, ed Carthage, on the African coast; and by all these clasi es money was C4U>etfleeting the present condition influence his motives, direct his weighed out to Ephr^n, the Hittite and after Alexander the Great needed. People who had that com "*»11. should be a weighty consider- actions and control his life. No | for the field of Mach Pelab, in the destroyed Tyre, about three cen modity were hunted up and brought 1,100 to the thoughtful, because | temple is too sacred for its consider presence of the children of Heth, turies B. C., Carthage succeeded into requisition, when it was dis ations to enter. No time is free effecting the future happiness of] And long before Abraham’s time, as the merchant city, and both it covered that large quantities of the from its importunities—no portion during the reign of the Memphian and its colonies in Spain continued supply lay in the hands of the Jews, ttwe whom we shall leave behind of life is not shadowed bv its in Pharoahs, and under Khufa, the to monopolize the carrying trade a people of a creed it was consid on the stage of action, when we, q fluence. From the first breath Obvious of this world’s affairs, I second king of the fourth Dynasty, of the world, until the Romans ered a virtue to persecute. drawn bv the infant after coming 4»ll be mouldering in the restful out of the womb, to the latest throb the great pyramid was built and on overthrew them as a nation and Borrowing took place upon a very it is inscribed what it cost in money themselves began to assume that “knee of the tomb. precarious tenor of contract. The of the aged heart before going into It i», therefore, without apology, the grave, money is the guiding star to maintain the slaves who labored lucrative employment. Jews sought to hide and transfer Now the Romans conquered the their property ata moment’s no- t>»t 1 leave the ordinary topics ot ma kind. Nor does any other upon it, carved in hieroglyyics by the priests of Menevis upon its world and ruled ... it all as ’Inch the memories of this day institution left standing today . provinces tice for eaf«ty- For this purpose massive masonery; and this was of one empire. / All " naticns outside (they invented bills of exchange to o*llv -uggest to review the pres- j among men carry us back so far in long prior to the date given by the Roman confines i were barbar- operate as evidence of wealth in the 11 lllue from that standpoint of j to history. The line of the supreme medieval scholars for the creation ians, and did very little, if i any. I hands of the holder, but in such ' Pontiffs of the Roman Catholic “‘«ory »nd so draw from the of the world, according to the business, in the way of traffic, . i ex- • form as to be capable of transfer to a church, as McCauley so elegantly tithe future. Mosaic account, Back of this there cepi with the Romans and those i writes, goes back in an unbroken a distance, and enable the property !'• the tuidst of plenty we are in , geries, from the pope who crowned are no authetic dates. Truly the who traded with the Roman mer in bulk of him who issued them to ’lnv are fewer rich, and Napoleon in the nineteenth century origin of money is lost in the twi chants naturally came to adopt the escape from the needy but power ®*«poor. i n Mxilaf0 *n pruIHjrt’on lo tb® to the pope who crowned Pepin in light of antiquity Roman money. ful Christian borrower under the ........ .. “ iiun-mw eigm; ana iar bevond the time BU .! w ^ ere the record " history I pto this time money had come plea of previous indebtedness or dred ,^iere were a bun- i the eigth; and far beyond the time in this country .and of Pepin the august ’ dynasty ex.! are 811ent-or gather before they ex- from being any article two mer- transfer of title, to lessen the wealth 1» Biore startling still, the tends until it is lost in the twilicht ■ ist, we may draw inferences from chants could ------ 1 agree upon among about to be extorted from him, and R^man CathoHc "atl,ral caU8®8-la*“ and conditions 1 themselves to use as the medrum richer, and the poor are of fable. 1 Bulthe _____ im as the Jews, in loaning to the than ever in the world be Heirarchy is but as of yesterday l to account tor the original sources for an exchange of commodities Christian, took great hazard of the while it i >• a glorious lec 00,11 Pared Wlth the antiquity of of money. Now there was a time . without regard to relative values loan being like neyer to see the col when there was no nomich __ amant ft»- such thing as except for the ________ purpose of - the ex ’ In search of its origin we ,h' property, and the only right there change, into being a peculiar arti- or of his money again, he insisted must goback beyond the popes; we year» against political could be to the possession of -- an cl®, stamped with the coinage of a on large profits for the usage and must go back beyond the Ca-sars *lM”T P»»- ___________ heavy securities, which the necessi- who preceded them; we must go article was the fact of the posses 'single nation and adopted as a me ^■ofilaver, -k:*. “,ul,Ier beck beyond the consult sion itself, and the present use of «Hum throughaut the civilized ties and improvidence of the Chris- -y. .h.ch .. here OO. ufore ,h. we must ^o !. Uft.er “ becWM acknow- w°nd- From the fall of the Roman t’an induced him to give The Jew lodged th.l .here labor or .kill h.d empire (o 1000 y.ar, agD 'guLLT. | would ooi^.1 then part with ............................. “• much of the K", nuelu. colo.d money of the k brilliant oration I__ _ Delivered on July 4th., at Long Creek, by Hon. Thorton Williams. HIS THEME THE MONEY QUESTION. 1